Voice Acting

[Cizmar]

Will there be voice acting on most if not all NPCs? One of the things that makes Skyrim one the best RPGs of all time, is that everyone talks to you. Even just passing by an NPC, they make remarks. Yes, they recycle the voice actors a lot, (even more so in Oblivion) but it still greatly adds to the immersion. With modern AI, it could be glorious

[oncelostgames]

Unfortunately, due to the amount of dialogue we are planning, as well as the procedural nature of some quests, there is no way for us to have it all voice acted. For now we are only planning on greetings, grunts, battle cries, etc. as well as a text-to-speech option for accessibility purposes.

[Alex Pandora]

Originally posted by oncelostgames:

...as well as a text-to-speech option for accessibility purposes.

I am so pleased to see this.

It's hard to read lots of text, anymore.

Half the time, I use a text to speech voice synthesizer to read to me the posts on these forums. I mostly interact with online text this way, and have for decades.